Google's search chief Marissa Mayer still thinks data-driven design should prevailYesterday, at Google’s Searchology press event, I caught up with Marissa Mayer, the company’s search goddess.Despite the short time I had with Mayer, she managed to talk about tons of topics (yes, she speaks that fast!); and I’m glad I had my camera with me, and it’s all on tape now… I mean YouTube, for your enjoyment So let’s start rolling.Google and TwitterGoogle is looking to index Twitter traffic, because that’s also information and because Tweets don’t lie! Mayer thinks that Twitter searches could be particularly “powerful” (she likes that word) and useful; and is an important “signal” that she liked to include in Google’s search engine the collective wisdom of the real-time Tweets.Data-driven design vs. Pure designSome designers have left Google because of the data-driven, engineering mentality. This is the first time Mayer openly defends Google’s data-driven culture in making design decisions. Basically, she tells designers to swallow their pride and follow the flow: data wins!Google moves beyond keyword searchesThe new “Search Options” is an example of how Google wants to simplify search and even make it fun to do. For Mayer, search is not anymore, put a keyword in the box and wait for Google to return a URL. “It’s not just URL anymore. Videos matter. Maps matter,” says Mayer. Now with richer results thanks to Google’s Universal Search, it’s even more important to filter that multi-dimensional information. “That’s a different search now,” she adds. And the good thing is that you don’t need to be a search expert to do those complicated queries. Google will do it for you!Search Options feature could become the default “There are few obvious ways that Search Options will expand over time. One is that we will apply to more and more genres. So for example today, the Search Options panel is launching on Web and on Image search but it makes sense to also have a Search Opt